Claude Lévi-Strauss

...100 Tue Nov 3, 2009 1:22pm EST PARIS (Reuters) - French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a...

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...Elementary Structures of Kinship, which drew praise in academic circles. The publication of Tristes Tropiques in 1955 secured his reputation as a major intellectual. In 1959 Levi-Strauss was named to a chair in social anthropology at the...

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...in the South American giant. Levi-Strauss also won worldwide acclaim and was awarded honorary doctorates universities including Harvard, Yale and Oxford, as well as universities in Sweden, Mexico and Canada. He is survived by his sons...

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...love of music. His attempt to create a scientific basis for the study of culture was recognised by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which awarded him its Gold Medal, the highest French scientific distinction. Though bound to...

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...books in the South American giant. Levi-Strauss left France during as a result of the anti-Jewish laws of the collaborationist Vichy regime and during World War II joined the Free French Forces. Levi-Strauss also won worldwide acclaim...

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REUTERS 4 November 2009, 01:06am IST PARIS: French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider...

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...of Jewish origin. He grew up in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne. In the mid-1930s he went to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he taught sociology before turning to anthropology. He conducted research in the Mato Grosso and Amazon regions. Later...

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...the French government until 1947. On his return to France, he earned a doctorate in letters from the University of Paris in 1948 and was associate curator at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris in 1948 and 1949. His first major book, The...

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